The Western Washington University Children’s Literature Conference is back in person after a two year pandemic hiatus, and with a new addition: the Inaugural Canadian Children’s Literature honoree, Sydney Smith. Thanks to a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the conference will bring a notable Canadian Children’s author or illustrator as one of four presenters

Life-changing is perhaps the best way to describe my time at the University of Washington. For someone who had never visited the west coast before, it was a perfect place to live my experience as a Killam Fellow. A typical day during my time here would start with a run or a walk on the

The Canadian Studies Center, housed at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been selected to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program. The University of Washington is one of 44 colleges and universities across the United States

The start of 2022 has not been quiet. We are all connected to one another now more than ever. Individuals and groups are taking advantage of our connectivity to manipulate economies, stand up to powerful foes, and to share valuable information for progress. We may be seeing a beginning of a new way of money

Border communities have always fascinated me. It’s absurd yet entirely normal that people lead vastly different lives depending on which side of an arbitrary line they find themselves on. There are dozens of communities straddled along the U.S.-Canada border and I even had the chance to visit one last summer (Cornwall, ON). As a geography

My first memories are of my family’s old house on Bainbridge Island, taking the ferry to or from Seattle. We moved when I was still little, and I spent my elementary and middle school years in Indiana and Tennessee. Even though I’d spent most of my life east of the Mississippi, I held onto the

Joining the Corbett Virtual Exchange program has been a great way to meet new students, get involved in various issue areas involving both countries, and gain valuable insights from my peers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. As a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and having grown up

We often think that the world is much bigger than it is. With its vast size and enormous population, we are in many ways tricked into believing in this myth of a large world. In adopting this mindset, we can separate ourselves from certain things that happen, stating “well that’s happening so far away, so

Yoshitaka Ota served as director of the Nereus Program, a global interdisciplinary initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University of British Columbia to further knowledge about how to best attain sustainability for the world’s oceans, between 2011 and 2019. During that time, he identified a capacity and knowledge gap in addressing the widening inequality in

Maya Angela Smith, an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies, focuses on the intersection of racial and linguistic identity formations among marginalized groups in the African diaspora, particularly in the francophone world. She also researches how Blackness is constructed in francophone regions as well as how French studies can diversify and